U.S. panel on Iraq reaches agreement on Iraq policy

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. bipartisan group examining the Bush administration's Iraq policy on Wednesday reached consensus on its recommendations to the White House and Congress, its co-chairman said. <<<

U.S. military denies there is civil war in Iraq

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- A top U.S. military leader denied on Wednesday that there was a civil war in Iraq, despite the ongoing, escalating violence in the Middle East country and the fact that some American news organizations have called the conflict a civil war.<<<

Report: U.S. military equipment worth billions wearing out in Iraq, Afghanistan

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- About 2 billion U.S. dollars' worth of U.S. Army and Marine Corps equipment, from rifles to tanks, is wearing out or being destroyed every month in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. media reported on Wednesday. <<<

Iraq civil war? Bush says no, media says yes

    BEIJING, Nov. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. President George W. Bush says Iraq has not fallen into a civil war, The New York Times and other U.S. news outlets say it has and have begun using the term to describe the fighting in Iraq. <<<

Bush: sectarian violence in Iraq not civil war

    RIGA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush said Tuesday in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, that the sectarian violence in Iraq was not civil war but an effort by Al Qaida extremists to disrupt the democratic progress, according to news reaching here. <<<

White House denies Iraq conflict a civil war

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- The White House denied on Monday the saying by NBC, a major television network in the United States, that Iraq has fallen into a civil war. <<<

Violence rages in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi capital city of Baghdad on Saturday remained under curfew for the second day, as gunmen raided two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in Diyala province. <<<